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:<math>P(B\mid A) = P(B)</math>

is also equivalent. Although the derived forms may seem more intuitive, they are not the preferred definition as the conditional probabilities may be undefined, and the preferred definition is symmetrical in ''A'' and ''B''. Independence does not refer to a disjoint event.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tijms|first=Henk|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/understanding-probability/B82E701FAAD2C0C2CF36E05CFC0FF3F2|title=Understanding Probability|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-65856-1|edition=33rd|___location=Cambridge|doi=10.1017/cbo9781139206990}}</ref>

It should also be noted that given the independent event pair [''A'',''B''] and an event ''C'', the pair is defined to be [[Conditional independence|conditionally independent]] if<ref>{{Cite book|last=Pfeiffer|first=Paul E.|title=Conditional Independence in Applied Probability|date=1978|publisher=Birkhäuser Boston|isbn=978-1-4612-6335-7|___location=Boston, MA|oclc=858880328}}</ref>